War Quotes
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There's a tendency to look at anybody who joined the military as if they underwrote everything that happened policy-wise. That's not really the case. I have a friend who both protested the Iraq War and joined the military, and ended up serving two deployments in Afghanistan.
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At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain.
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Police do not belong in war zones.
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Many Africans succumb to the idea that they can't do things because of what society says. Images of Africa are negative - war, corruption, poverty. We need to be proud of our culture.
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I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.
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Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.
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My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.
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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
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The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is 'Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War One is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand'. -Lemony Snicket
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If they are going to have war, they ought to take the old men and leave the young to propagate the race.
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Waiting for the miracleThere's nothing left to do.I haven't been this happysince the end of World War II.
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In 2001-2002, I told the president that the election was supposed to take place when the war was over, at a time when we could return to peaceful life. We agreed upon that. However, I can see now that the election cannot be delayed any longer.
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You see, this war came to us, not the other way around.
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People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.
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For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced.
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We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait. Democracy, civilization itself, is at stake. Within the next few years we must change the basic structure of our global community from the present anarchic system of war and ever more destructive weaponry to a new system governed by a democratic UN federation.
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I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from.
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I don't like being angry all the time; it's not good for me. I have to have serenity or else go to war.
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We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in America. The right choice is to fight those terrorists where they are.
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The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.
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If you are going to take away war toys, then what are you to replace them with? Children need to feel courageous, brave, and assertive. They need to feel strong; that is the purpose of their play.
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I don't really think much about how I would have fared in the Second World War. It's a topic that has to be treated with respect and subtlety, and you can't just go in all guns blazing and make an epic action film.
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I'm really into very 'naive craft,' like Second World War playing cards.
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I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.
